The Best APE to MP3 Converter – Quick Convert APE to MP3 for Smaller Size and Better Compatibility

APE (Monkey's Audio) is a popular lossless audio format that does not cause any audio quality loss during data encoding and compression. Therefore, APE files are large and take a while to transfer. APE also has poor compatibility with devices and programs. In contrast, MP3 is a lossy audio format, which discards some audio data for a smaller size, but still maintains good quality. It's hard to notice the difference between APE and 320kbps MP3 with bare ears. Most importantly, MP3 is a universal audio format that provides native support for almost all multimedia devices. Overall, converting APE to MP3 is a good choice when you don't have enough space to store large APE files or need to play or edit APE on an incompatible program.

Foobar2000 is a high-quality music player favored by many users. It has rich components and can achieve APE MP3 conversion as follows:

Step 1. Install the latest version of Foobar2000 and Monkey's Audio Decoder:

http://www.foobar2000.org/

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_monkey

Step 2. Run Foobar2000. Click on File > Preferences or press Ctrl+P. Select Components on the left and then press the Install button on the right to import the Monkey's Audio Decoder component you installed just now. Click OK to restart Foobar2000.

Step 3. Click File > Open to import APE files or directly drag and drop them into the window.

Step 4. Select all APE files, right-click and choose Convert > Quick convert. Then choose MP3 (LAME) and press Convert.

You can click on Edit to change the audio quality to 320kbps.

Step 5. Specify the output path to convert APE to MP3 at one go.

Tips. If you want to convert a large APE file with CUE file, you need to split the CUE file.   Check this tutorial to learn more >> how to split CUE file.

We have selected some online video converters that support .ape to .mp3 conversion.  

https://convertio.co/ape-mp3/

https://online-audio-converter.com/

https://www.zamzar.com/

Just upload APE files into the sites, choose MP3 as output format and then start the conversion. It’s quite simple to convert APE to MP3 online yet you need to be aware that all the online APE to MP3 converters limit the size of uploads so you could only convert small APE files. Of course, slow conversion & upload speed is the common defect of online converters. If you happened to experience extremely slow process speed, you can resubmit the APE file or turn to other methods.